... IRISH ELECTION PETITION FUND.—We arc authorised to state that Mr. Blewitt was prepared to have brought on his motion on this subject on Wednesday evening last, but he con- sented to adjourn it at the particular request of some of the most influential members on both sides of the house. The fortunes of public men in ancient Rome often it was said, depended upon the predictions of the augurs, ...

... FOETHY AN IRISH MELLOW-DAY. It was Paudv O'Murrough that lovM Mistress Casey In ribands for her he would squander hi* pelf; And he swore that without her he'd never he aisy, And sent her big praties to roast for herself. He said she was Vanus, and Mais, and Apolly,' And twenty more goddesses up in de skies And never tired praising her swate little ancle, And her swate little mouth, and her ...

... Who is Mr. BLEWITI, every one will ask ? who is the gen- tleman that proposes to delay, rather to deny, the justice of the country, in attenuance upon its committee 1 we are enabled to answer the question by the Parliamentary Pocket Book Com- panion.' He is a provincial attorney, late editor of a very scure and very ill-conducted provincial journal. How he got into Parliament we are unable to ...

... ( Before Dr. Lvshington.) BRAINTREE CHURCH-RATE CA5E,- Vesey and Jocelyn v. Burder.—In this suit—which, it will be remembered, is the Braintree church rate case—the registrar informed the court that he had been served with a copy of a rule to show cause why a prohibition should not be issued to stay proceedings in this court till the matter with regard to the jurisdiction had been discussed in ...

... MERTHYR 7'YDVIL, SATURDAY, Dec. 2, 1837. The commencement of the Session lias already disclosed the views of some of the parliamentfJJ: parties. The extraordinary cir- cumstance of exhibiting a Prince of the Blood as a direct creature of the Ministry, lis excited singular conjectures. The Duke, 1rorn early life undistinguished by any (Legree of public talent, utterly destitute of weight in ...

... SCRIPTURE 1 LLUSTRATlOSS.—tio. 220 IXK E, IV. 33.— And in the syuaarofrue there was a man which had a spirit of an unclean Devil. The persons mentioned in the Xew Testament as possessed with deviis, were not afflicted with some strange bodily or mental disease. Thev are evidently distincriiished from the diseased, see particularly Luke iv. 33, 41 though in any view of the case the cure of the ...

... AUTUMN.— (Extract from an essay on Autumn in the Coun- try Miscellany for October, edited by H. Burgess, Luton.)—But Autumn gives rise to a very dilJerent class of associations, more in unison with those melancholy musings in which men are often compelled to indulge. It is true the busy world cares little for the changes of seasons, except so far as they may affect the shipping interest, or ...

... Sweet girl, you've stole my heait away, You're sadly given to thieving; To make me thus so dearly pay, When nothing I'm receiving. L But if you give your heart to me, t All matters thus arranging I No more, sweet girl, 'twill stealing be— 'Twill only be exchanging. I All matters thus arranging I No more, sweet girl, 'twill stealing be— 'I'ivill oitl!l be exchaitgiii. I ...

... INNER TEMTLE, SATURDAY, Nov. 25.-The undermen- rioned gentlemen were yesterday called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, viz :-Edward Brooke, Esq.; Peter Moncrieffe, Esq.; Charles James Cruitwell, Esq.; and James John Fitz James, Esq. The reformed corporation of Hull have adopted a peti- non to Parliament, praying for household suffrage, trien- nial Parliaments, and vote ...

... THURSDAY, Nov. 23.—SLAVFRY EMANCIPATION ACT.— Lord Brougham presented a petition from Southampton, com- plaining that the planters in most of the colonies had failed in performing their part of the contract entered into when the sum of twenty millions was generously rather than justly voted, and therefore praying that measures be taken for the effectua- tion of entire and immediate ...

... STATE OF TRADE. BRISTOL SUGAR 'NIARKET.-Tiiis iii-,trk(,t I-.ist week was very languid. Prices continued steady, with but little doing.. WOOL TRA DE. _The REPORTS from Yorkshfre are, with few exceptions, of a rather improving nature. NIETALS.riie Iwlt/prs of British copper meet the buyers more freely than ot late, and prices have given way about t2 per ton some orders iron France have been ...

... EMANCIPATION ACT,— Anti-slavery Mr have been held at various places, at which °Seph S'.urge is the principal mover, conteii'i- 'be Emancipation Act is evaded, and tlie tat,l0ee treated even worse than before t\\e fiat. At- a lS 'hug made, at large and excited meei injr^, upon dis|0dy °f gemlenien and magislrates 3,000 iiiile.1* Co;> ad who have h:nl no citation to appear in ...